• John and Charlotte Richins had a daughter, Hannah Louisa, who traveled with them, but died on July 12, three days before the company departed from Iowa City. The company journal misidentifies the death as "the daughter of Hanna Louiza Richins" rather than Hannah herself.

  The family sailed to America in 1856 on the ship Thornton.

   

   

James G. Willie Company (1856)

• Age at Departure: 22

Sources

• James G. Willie Emigrating Company journal, 1856 May-November, 16-53.
• Journal History of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 9 November 1856, 2.
• Marilyn Austin Smith, Faithful Stewards--the Life of James Gray Willie and Elizabeth Ann Pettit, 95-120.
• Perpetual Emigrating Fund, Financial Accounts 1849-1886, Ledger B, p. 212
• “Pioneers Laid to Rest," Deseret News, 17 Feb. 1909, 3.
• Saints By Sea: Latter-day Saint Immigration to America